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$60.9 Million Verdict for Brain-Injured Baby

Led by partner Deborah J. Gander, the firm in 2005 obtained $60.9 million in injury compensation, the largest amount ever awarded in a Federal Tort Claims Act case in the country. Federal Judge Jose A. Gonzalez found the Obstetrics Clinic in Mayport Naval Station in Jacksonville, Florida, liable for medical negligence in the delivery of a brain-injured baby.

Our class action team achieved a $100 million settlement from Service Corporation International (SCI), a national funeral company, and its subsidiary, Menorah Gardens Cemetery. The case alleged that the companies buried families in the wrong graves, and the company agreed to compensate for the families’ grievances and provide in-kind services.

Lion Air Flight 610 Update: Investigators Release Preliminary Crash ReportOn October 29, 2018, a Lion Air flight traveling from Jakarta, Indonesia to Pangkal Pinang crashed into the Java Sea after experiencing a flight control problem minutes after departure. There were no survivors. The Republic of Indonesia’s Komite Nasional Keselamatan Transportasi (KNKT) recently published a preliminary report about Lion Air ...

NHTSA Investigates General Motors Over Faulty Braking SystemAccording to a report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI), more than 2.7 million General Motors (GM) vehicles could be affected by deteriorating brake assist vacuum pumps. After receiving 111 complaints about 2014, 2015 and 2016 truck and SUV models, NHTSA has launched an ...

Marriott Discloses 500 Million Guests Affected by Starwood’s Database HackAccording to Marriott’s press release, Starwood’s guest reservation database was hacked. On September 8, 2018, Marriott International received an internal alert about an unauthorized user attempting to access the Starwood guest reservation database. Since then, investigators found copied and encrypted information from an authorized user. ...

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Who Oversees the Takata Airbag Recall?

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) oversees the Takata airbag recall. However, as attorney Curt Miner explains in this video, there are limits to what the NHTSA can accomplish. Therefore, when dealing with a situation as large as the Takata recall, it can be difficult for the NHTSA to carry out the recall as quickly as necessary. As a result, defective vehicles are remaining out on the road much longer than they should, which can lead to more defect-related auto accidents, injuries and deaths.

Video Transcription:

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. NHTSA. And it’s tasked with a job of overseeing safety and enforcing safety regulations in the automotive industry, but it’s a massive industry and it’s a government agency. They have limited resources, limited time, limited things they can do. And while they do their best, they don’t catch everything. Additional accidents in which there have been airbag ruptures are occurring, and because there are so many of these airbags on the roads and so many cars having these, and it’s taken so long to carry out this recall, it’s likely unfortunate that there will continue to be injuries. An airbag is supposed to cushion the impact if you are hit in certain directions in your car. Airbags can sometimes cause things like bruises. They come out hot. They can even cause a bit of burning or irritation. But the types of injuries that are being seen are lacerations. Pieces of shrapnel breaking free from the canister and embedding in the person. Cutting them, cutting their neck, cutting their face, breaking their facial bones, and in some cases even causing skull fractures. These are not the types of injuries that a properly functioning airbag would ever cause. Some of our clients in this case have told us that the number one reason that they wanted to participate in this case, and the number one goal they have is to make sure that something like this never happens again. And I couldn’t have put it better. That’s exactly what we hope comes of this case, that something like this never happens again. For more information, Call Colson Hicks Eidson 305-476-7400 visit our website, Colson.com.

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